Finance Director

Organization Overview

Habitat for Humanity Anchorage works in partnership with local communities to build homes, build hope and change lives. We do this by building and renovating simple, decent, and affordable housing and by using our voice in the community to make adequate housing a matter of conscience and action. Habitat sells its houses to qualified low-income Anchorage individuals and families. Habitat for Humanity is a non-profit Christian housing ministry who partners with individuals and families of any race, sex, age, disability, faith, familial status, or national origin.

Habitat Anchorage is an affiliate of Habitat for Humanity International. This means we benefit from a global network of expertise, including opportunities to attend affiliate conferences and engage on volunteer build projects around the globe.

Like many Habitat affiliates, in addition to revenue from grants and donations, Anchorage operates a ReStore retail store that generates significant revenue from the sale of donated goods.

Home ownership is the way that Habitat for Humanity has addressed poverty for more than 2 million people worldwide. This is an opportunity to get hands-on with changing lives the Habitat way in Anchorage, Alaska.

Position Overview

The Finance Director is responsible for finance strategy, project finance planning, accounting, bookkeeping oversight, lending administration, compliance management and human resources administration. Capacity to pivot daily from providing support for strategic financial decisions to dealing with bookkeeping and administration tasks is essential.

The role is a key member of the senior executive team, working closely with the Executive Director, the Operations Director, the Development Director, the Construction Manager, and the ReStore Manager. Some listed responsibilities are shared with other directors depending on current team strengths.

Habitat for Humanity accounting features unique complexities. Deeds and Notes related to charitable lending discounts and the consequent reconciliations and accruals required under GAAP are challenging to understand. Loans are administered by a banking partner, but loan accounting and controls sit with this role.

Specific Responsibilities

Finance

· Team with the Finance Committee and Executive Director to develop finance strategy.

· Be a key contributor to development of new financial partnerships.

· Model and develop financial projections for residential construction projects.

· Liquidity management, short term and multi-year projections.

Accounting

· Analyze and present financial reports in an accurate and timely manner; clearly communicate monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements

· Annual budget preparation

· Construction project job costing

· Accounts payable

· Payroll

· Contractor induction

· Supplier management

· Grant application support

· Grant reporting administration

· Balance sheet reconciliations and accruals

· Achieve an annual audit clean bill of health

Lending administration

· Property sale and home loan accounting

· Lending controls

Compliance

· Ensuring financial operations are fully compliant with internal policy

· Tax return filing

· Timely annual audit

· Property taxes

· Maintain tax exempt status

· Business and trade licenses

· Quarterly reporting to Habitat International

Risk management

· Coordinate company business insurance, including renewals, applications, certificates of insurance, and claims

· Contractor registration and insurance

· Monthly risk register and compliance schedule reporting

HR

· Administer employee onboarding

· Administer staff insurance and retirement plans

· Administer employee separation.

Skills and experience

The successful candidate will demonstrate experience in cashflow projections on capital projects, annual and long-term strategic budgeting, financial analysis, capital leverage and debt financing strategies.

Requires a sound understanding of accounting principles and GAAP, job costing experience, and experience in financial reporting for board consumption.

CPA with minimum five years’ experience, ten years preferred.

Capacity and willingness to take on any other administrative duties across departments as required to support our small team to success. Essential is down-to-earth comfort with working in a small team and handling duties at all levels and across departments as required.